Which Rolex replica watch looks closest to the genuine watch? This is a very easy question for many people. But when you ask which Richard Mille replica is the best, few people know. After years of development, the replicas of Richard Mille have higher and higher quality, if you are going to buy one, I suggest you choose from the three models, which are RM35-01, RM35-02 and RM055, these are also the three Richard Mille replicas which factories are competing fiercely with each other. For example, in the very beginning, about three or four years ago, no factories are making good quality replicas of Richard Mille RM35-02, some mod workshops like Sonic and ABD are making it secretly, later their watches are promoted in our market and more people knew them. Even the RM35-02 published by ZF later used the case developed by ABD that has very beautiful and real forged carbon texture. APS is the last factory to make the RM35-02, before that, we know they already produced the RM055, however, in this battle of RM35-02 between Sonic, ZF and APS, which factory finally wins? I think it is definitely APS.
Just two or three weeks ago, APS just published the replica RM35-02, with the newly developed movement made by DD. However, that movement has a hairspring regulator, which is a very noticeable flaw if checking the movement from the crystal back. You can see the picture below. Almost all movements from DD used in replica watches have this flaw, but that does not mean the movements are not good, on the contrary, they are more stable and accurate than most other movements in this industry. To my surprise, in less than a month, APS Factory carried out further improvement on this movement of the RM35-02, and they really did a free-sprung balance, now a true super clone RMAL1 movement came out, from APS only. And the latest version of RM35-02 with this super clone RMAL1 is called V2 now.
Look at the pictures below, on top of the balance wheel, the regulator was removed and the weights are added on the balance wheel, the true free-sprung balance comes out. But this is not the first movement with free-sprung balance appeared in our market, some mod workshops are offering the service of free-sprung balance modification on many watches like Nautilus 5711, Aquanaut, Daytona, etc., but for this super clone RMAL1, this is the first movement with free-sprung balance formally made by a famous watch maker. Then how about its stability? You guys must concern, this still needs time to test, after all the movement just came out, if the modification is not good, the stability will be affected, I will keep you posted about this movement in future articles.
